(Or, "What I did today") Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we’ve no place to go, (I’m on vacation and my car is in the shop.) Let us code! Let us code! Let us code!

I frequently get emails containing links to file shares on various servers. Most people just grab the path from windows explorer and paste it into the email which is a shame, because it ends up auto-linking only the first part of the path. For example, “\\server\share with space in the name” auto-links “\\server\share” only. Tip: [...]

If you blog, and haven’t checked out FeedBurner yet, you should. Not only can it offload the majority of the bandwidth from a busy blog (not mine), but the stats it collects are impressive. They do a lot of work to display meaningful and correct stats, and even with that effort it’s always “approximate” due [...]

Maybe it’s “the grass is always greener” syndrome, but the idea of starting a Micro ISV has always been attractive to me. I suspect it comes from the following (flawed) thought process: 1. I can create software.2. I can create good software. (My mom says so, anyway.)3. Problems exist that software can solve.4. I can [...]

Jeff Atwood wrote a post on passing the “Elevator Test”. He says, Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and that does involve writing code. But let’s keep this squarely in context: writing code [...]

So far I’ve had one call from my blog via Grand Central, but I accidentally sent them to voicemail instead of answering–I was talking with some folk at work, so I was a little distracted–sorry “Robert”, whoever you are! I also got a Skype call today, that ended up being a mis-click. A subconscious comment [...]

I saw this thing called inviteshare.com today (via Mike), which is apparently the way to get invited to the hottest and latest Web-2.0-social-networking-mashup-who-even-has-the-time sites. I was struck by just how many sites there are with ridiculous names who will connect you to your BFF, cure cancer, clothe the poor, and apparently they do all that [...]

I just can’t pass up a free t-shirt, even when “free” is relative. It didn’t cost me any money–that’s free in my book. I’ve been known to head to Kohl’s and stock up on $3 t-shirts around the 4th of July. So, here’s to Eric Sink for giving me a cheap-as-free shirt, thanks! (Click to [...]

A few years ago, I was very excited for the release of the Motorola MPx220. I thought it was going to be the coolest thing since sliced bread, and on one level, it was. But it came bundled with so many issues, I think I’ve been tainted towards “smartphones”–phones that do it all. Seems like [...]

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